This is why, when I sold my paper collection, I kept basic lands and a sharpie.

Sorry if this has been posted before, but what site is that? Can you link me please?

So, back to streams....

That payout is ignorant. Gatherling is hosting regular vintage events that can't hit a dozen players. I've advertised them twice here.

Do you want quickest beat down, or quickest beat down that utilizes cavern of souls? There were those jund decks around the time of alara block that were ridiculously fast, and zoo with all land types represented in duals and tribal flames + might of alara. Cavern of souls, force of will, aether vial, etc. are all at your disposal in merfolk. That sounds like where you want to be... Though I have been inspired to see your goblins list on mtggoldfish, and my fifty ticket legacy deck has cashed a couple of times. There is definitely something to be said for aggro.

Finally, what about that infect blazing shoal list that took first within the past year in some European tourney?

Here is the announcement for the second of these events. This is much higher than your Daily payouts, so it is well worth the look!

http://puremtgo.com/articles/overdriven-103

Two days away!

You may be thinking of Island Sanctuary or something; otherwise, I don't understand what you're saying.

This is pretty significant in the beta, actually. I remember getting confused with Genesis Wave and ended up dumping 12 permanents in the graveyard that could have come into play. Fortunately they are being pretty responsive to feedback about problems. It was also difficult earlier to figure out which spell was being countered on the stack, but they have since added arrows.

misread date, nvm.

Oh my gosh can we please not have nagging paper Vintage owners ruin this for everyone else? Up next: "WotC doesn't care about Vintage." Wonder why? Throw them a bone, they bite your hand.

Rich Shay, thanks for what you've done on this site, but please cash out of MTGO and quit writing books about how bad it is and how unjustly you've been treated.

Looks like an awesome opportunity: free entry, 75 bot store credit + 9 Vintage Masters packs to winner and 25 bot credits + 3 VMA packs to second. Members of this board should be favored with the format, if unfavored for the interface.
July 12 8:30 pm eastern
http://puremtgo.com/articles/overdriven-99
It's a very interesting tournament structure: Once you're X-2, you're out. Last man standing wins.

Yeah, I am sorry for your frustration, but no one would suggest putting $50 up on your first MTGO experience in a long time and on the new client.

There are probably filters set in place to prevent certain names from existing due to people's sensitivities, and I imagine "Lord" is one of them. It's annoying, but it seems like an easy line for them to have set to avoid trouble (which is more of a cultural issue than one of MTGO).

I can also understand hostility against MTGO when you already own $4k decks. It is nice to be one of the 10-25 people that can attend local tournaments in about four cities of the USA. The rest of us are extremely excited that multiple Vintage tournaments happen every day, new players are coming in, innovation is happening, players can "go infinite" (making their money back) a lot more reliably than in paper, etc.

I think it's kind of tacky that a moderator of this site would take this stance on MTGO and post it with this title. Vintage on MTGO is great for the format and hundreds of old and new players with more to come.

There is some volatility in prices on MTGO right now for non-redeemable cards (basically, older ones). Daily Events have been suspended until further notice to repair the server, so prices dropped. They may be going back up, but I think prices will continue downward until everything is fixed. Just in case anyone was considering investing in...

I'm really, really excited about this. There is NOTHING in my area that allows me to play Vintage at any remotely convenient time. I've been active in the Pauper and Modern community on MTGO, and this is a huge step up for a reasonable cost. Collections and tickets can be sold, whether they're data or cardboard. You're definitely losing money with your "investment," and Magic cards are impossibly hard to liquidate well. Any complaints about cost from a VINTAGE forum are ridiculous.

You guys are going to get DAILY reports on decklists that go 4-0 and 3-1 in tournaments. More Pros and grinders can get involved, which will either bring innovation or necessitate format attention.

As long as I own basic Plains and a Sharpie, I can play kitchen table magic.

My only recommendation is not to play Dragon online.

Here, too, is a situation where casting one more is actually a benefit. Mental Misstep is one of the reasons Elves! isn't played more, in my opinion.

Modern has Glimpse elves back.

Legacy and Vintage have Glimpse 5-8, and perhaps more brokenness can happen with cards like Wirewood Hivemaster.

The opponent only requires one removal spell to thwart this, though, instead of two.

I opened up 2 Shivan Dragons in my first boosters purchase and immediately traded them for 2 Black Vise because I'd seen it in action.

The very very first time my friends and I played, we basically looked at Seasinger and said TLDR, then interpreted the "bury if you don't have islands" (paraphrase) as "if you don't have lands in your opening hand, use me as one!"

Aelopile was one of my favorite cards. 4 of it was in my 8 pump knights decks. Decks. I had one black deck with 8 pump knights and one white deck with 8 pump knights. Both decks had 4 Aeolopile. I still can't spell it or say it consistently (or perhaps correctly).

I want it!

Divining witch can also be a sideboard plan.

Control with mana severance?

I really disagree. It's a fair point for him to mention that your contributions here should be understandable to their audience. You're arguing that your ideas alone aren't getting the attention they inherently deserve, simply because they're ideas. Still, you're putting them in a vacuum and not taking into account their presentation. Your tone and word choice definitely play a part in your treatment here, not just terrible Goblins lists, outright dismissal of Goblins lists that put up top 8s, bad ideas for unrestriction*, and posts about all these poor proles that don't have a Master's degree or higher in a scientific field.

* I couldn't help but notice that you argued for Vampiric Tutor's unrestriction, pointing out how similar it is to Imperial Seal, which is rarely used. I'm sure there is some lofty reasoning behind this that I could simply never comprehend, but doesn't it make more sense, then, to make a case for removing IMPERIAL SEAL from the restricted list? I don't advocate this, of course, but I futilely wanted to understand your advanced logic.

It is funny against Standstill.

Legalizing CE would only help those that currently own CE. These people already play vintage. The price would skyrocket immediately.

I hate drawing a Dryad Arbor, and I feel like the likelihood of that happening with 2 Green Sun's Zenith is significantly greater. Plus, this isn't a midrange deck that wants three mana on turn 2 like many legacy lists that use GSZ + Arbor. I can't see it being worthwhile.

i want it

tarpan + cavern of souls
uncounterable tarpan

Show and Tell, Hypergenesis, Rector -> Omniscience.

Irony really taints everything (even deck names), and surely it's not still that funny. Must we continue encouraging it?

I don't know how janky this is getting, but what about playing 4 Omniscience in here in place of 4 fatties? That way, awesome things happen: You actually get to cast Emrakul and get a free turn. It's blue. If you play Griselbrand, you go nuts. It doesn't matter whether your opponent decides to play permanents or not.

Intuition is a good tutor in Hypergenesis.

Having hate at all against Dredge game 1 is impactful. The versatility allows this to be maindecked (as long as mana-base allows).

IF you're going to play Ancestral Knowledge, wouldn't you want to live the dream with some miracle cards?